Barford Cricket Club

Huge thanks to both Mike’s for another hugely enjoyable, if ultimately unsuccessful, tour – although we did have the consolation of shooting ourselves in the foot with both barrels in the Saturday game. The sun shone, beer was quaffed (although not by all), and much fun was had by all (at least judging from the email storm that’s been raging this week). Here’s hoping we’ll be allowed back next year 🙂

Highs

• Three close games
• Very sociable hosts
• The Hawkins sisters stealing the show with the bat
• The Star, The Pulteney and The Old Green Tree
• Sandy’s infatuation with Babestation
• Five virgin tourists attending
• The best selection of real ale in recent tours
• Purdy being off in The Wild Duck (If I can’t drink it nobody can-yes I’m THAT petty!)
• Shawn ‘The Special One’ Harrison being unleashed on the Bath nightspots by his carers
• The Special One and Statto sharing the honeymoon suite
• Andrew Sherratt getting locked out of his room-he was only staying one night!
• The hotel proving perfectly adequate despite people insisting we move before even seeing it
• The Pulteney barmaids
• The dancing nutter in The Star
• Timmsy taking an obvious dive in an attempt to get Richard sent off
• The earth moved (3.4 on the Richter Scale) as Simon Drage took his “catch of the century”
• Judge Jolly’s attack of cramp and demolishing a chair in the process – see below

Some weird tour initiation ceremony?!

Lows

• Purdy being off in The Wild Duck
• Losing three close games
• Ben’s ‘Star Turn’ on Saturday
• The hotel breakfast probably not coming from Bath’s finest deli
• Tour sec unable to sample said selection of real ale
• Dr Hook’s ‘If Not You’ blasting out of the Morris car stereo
• Hotel’s parking rip off
• Phil’s never ending over
• Chairman STILL drinking Campari